I saw you on the lawn at Britannia Beach when it was closed for swimming because of some algae bloom or bacteria count at least we didn't have to worry about radioactive waste or rogue shark sightings in shallow water or cliff erosion or rock falls or jellyfish stings you had your hands behind your knees as you sat with your legs akimbo and your green Converse sneakers with the laces in and the knot tucked in under the tongue at first I wasn't sure what you were looking at in the grass but then I saw it was bread tags on which you had your eye you picked one and bent it in half and broke it and hooked it on your index finger and flicked it twenty meters or more and I said you're good at that and then her eyes met mine and she said what bread clip stingers and she grinned mischievously and said that was pretty good wasn't it and said something about her misspent youth and flicked a...